elaborate R. K. Narayan's childhood as depicted in his my days
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In this extract from R. K. Narayan’s My Days, he recollects his adolescent days in school. In Mysore where he studied and had his father as the Head Master. Narayan comically introduces the reader to his Zoology teacher and then goes about detailing the happenings of his life during those days. He says that he was not interested in vesting his time learning from books. Subjects like chemistry, physics and math somehow eluded him. His father being the headmaster made sure that he was present on all days and to top that his father was addicted to checking the attendance of a student more so than teaching them. Narayan’s favorite subject was English and strangely he failed in it because though it was his favorite it had a problem. We understand that Narayan was very much interested in creative side of English rather than the analytical. Hence he got a short stick when he prepared for Oliver Twist but got nothing from it in the question paper.
Narayan’s childhood was spent in Madras of the yore at his Grandmother’s home where he a Peacock and Monkey for company. He narrates a few tales from those days – a sad succession of pets who were lost to accidents of all kinds, being afraid of a muscle-man with a moustache next door and roaming the streets with a cycle rim not caring for the summer Sun that beat on him